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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:15:18AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> ache@freebsd.org wrote 8 years ago in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c:
> 
> p += sprintf(p, "%.15s ", ctime(&now) + 4);
> 
> What is '+ 4' for?

ctime() returns:
	Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0

So ctime()+4 returns:
	Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0

In other words, it skips the day of the week.

Edwin

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